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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

For me Sweetness is the GOAT RB in the NFL.

Had Barry Sanders stayed around he would be the GOAT and not even close.

Jim Brown retired quite young to act in films. He is the GOAT RB.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...test-jim-brown

One important fact that people often forget when they compare Brown to modern day running backs is that he never played a 16 game season. In fact, for the first four years of his career, a season had only 12 games. His later seasons had 14 games for five cycles.

All of Brown's career stats match up very well against the other running back greats. But, a true measure of an athlete's skill is how he compared to his peers, and this is where Brown crushes the competition. Much like what Babe Ruth did for baseball, Brown revolutionized what people thought a running back was capable of accomplishing.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/10/06/ji...-nfl-greatness

To his football heirs—from Barry Sanders to Adrian Peterson—he’s the one player by which their own greatness is measured. To those who played with and against the Cleveland Browns legend, his prowess, intensity and intellect remain awe-inspiring. Fifty years after walking away from the game at his peak, he still towers over the NFL. Yes, he was just that good.

He finished his career with 12,312 rushing yards in 118 games, a record that wasn’t broken until 1984, when Walter Payton went past him in 18 more games and 451 more carries. Brown’s career record of 104.3 rushing yards per game remains the 56-game hitting streak of NFL records. (Adrian Peterson, 30, would have to average almost 1,900 yards per season for the next three full seasons to tie Brown’s mark; it would take more than 2,500 yards for Peterson to do it in one year).

Wiggin and Brown came to Cleveland the same year, 1957. “Jim retired two years before I did,” said Wiggin. “He could have played 10 years beyond me if he wanted.”